The McGranes were hoping Astorga would be sentenced to the death penalty, but the jury couldn't unanimously reach that verdict.

"He would have never died. But just knowing he would have been on death row would have been my punishment to him," McGrane said. "This took so much of our life, six years of not really living for ourselves but living to get justice for Jimmy."

The McGranes have been to nearly every court proceeding for the last six years and are relieved Astorga will spend much of his life behind bars.

"We pushed it to the max and that's what we wanted to do. You never know how it's going to turn out," James McGrane Sr. said. "Astorga did not have family members supporting him there today. That's the way he's going to be, alone in prison. That's all I can say."